Patricia Rincon performs at Archive Fever

Archive Fever is like March Madness for the artsy crowd. Seriously, the lineup of the UCSD arts series is stacked with big-time players like David Antin, Micha Cardenas and Liam Clancy (plus art collectives like the Border Corps, So Say We All and Corner Liquor Store). The artists take big moments in the University Art Gallery's history and sort of bring them back to life by both interpreting them and adding their own little spin through poetry, dance and performance.

Since it's such a sweet local happening, it made sense that we'd feature it in the first of our new To-Do List podcasts. We're trying something a little different this time, and instead of getting the culture crowd at CityBeat to talk about a handful of our favorite events every week, we decided to zoom in on just one special undertaking, go right to the source and introduce our listeners to the people who make our city so damn special. ---

This week's podcast got up close and personal with dancer and choreographer Patricia Rincon, who will be performing at Archive Fever at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 3, at the University Art Gallery. Rincon told us about her personal family experience with border crossing, went into detail about her process of interviewing people about their border-crossing stories for both her films and choreography and gave us a peak at "Skin," a piece she's choreographing for the Blurred Borders International Dance Festival she produces every year. Push play and get to know more about Rincon.

And because of the border-theme in much of Rincon's work, we used some clips from the San Diego/Tijuana based duo, Nortec Presents: Bostich Fussible. "I Count The Ways" is a track off their Grammy-nominated album, Bulevar 2000.